OT: RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] "Attachments killer"

"I get immediate messages when some one tries to attack my computer."

Unfortunately you don't. You only get messages for known attacks. One of
the favorite ways of attacking these days are through bugs/holes in
firewalls. It may upset some of you to know the government can and has
directed such holes in the past, and they often get exploited by
non-government hackers. Seen the recent exchange between McAfee and the
FBI over Magic Lantern? Imagine how much goes on you don't know about.
Although I'm not recommending that you do not run firewall software, I
am warning that it is much less protection than you may think.
You need to keep your OS software updated constantly, which also has
problems - recently many Linux users lost their hardrives to a new
kernel bug. There are no perfect solutions) - backup, be prudent.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Smoke [mailto:smoke@...]
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 10:47 AM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] "Attachments killer"


I've got Norton AV and personal firewall installed. I get immediate
messages when some one tries to attack my computer. All you need to do
to
find out where the virus is coming from is click on "details and the
software will tell you the ISP address of the ORIGINATING COMPUTER
(including the port number of the machine.

My niece and I were getting attacked several times a day for a while.
One
day the individual doing the attacking tried getting back into her
computer
thru ICQ. BIG mistake! She was then not only able to get the ISP
numbers,
but got the guys name and a bunch of other important details.

After she took all the info to the police, who contacted the FBI, the
attacks stopped...or at least they have for now. So, if you can get the
ISP
of the originating computer and it happens more than once coming from
the
same source, take the info to the FBI.

Smoke

> Unfortunately, the newest viruses seem to have got wise to this one.

Such
a

> system worked on earlier vuruses which emailed out to all your address

book

> contacts in sequence but the recent ones don't do that - they just

pick
some

> addresses at random. If they happen to pick the !0000 you would know

but

> look at the number of addresses on your machine and work out the odds

of

> them doing so. I guess what is really needed is a good and foolproof

way
of

> tracing viruses back to their source so we can all then spam their
> creators!!
>
> Ian
> --

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